Few graphic series succeed in producing continued quality and thoughtful design. One that does is the Burton Artist series. The current theme “Design of Dissent” gives each artist a strong working platform, and beyond those that are chosen are done so with a watchful eye. The result is drops that don’t skirt individuality in a quest for conformity — a requirement in a positive string of connected product.

The latest artist to work Burton’s t-shirt canvas is John Yates. He’s worked as artistic director of Alternative Tenticles, and with his own Stealworks actively designs for alternative press. For Burton, he’s done 4 tees. Each hits the nail on the head in terms of the umbrella theme. Visit your nearest Burton flagship store to grab one (or all).

Via: Blacklodges

Detailed views of John Yates Burton Artist Series T-shirts after the jump.

In pretty much every product segment you will find a brand that tries to take it to the next level in terms of quality and also in terms of design. Danish brand Vipp has been doing that now for nearly 70 years in the bin market.

"Vipp has given the classic 1939 design to a large number of big names in the worlds of design, fashion, art and entertainment and charged them with customising the bins. Not your average blank canvas, the interpretations vary from the simple, subtle and beautiful, to the downright extraordinary." Via Wallpaper.

The line-up of bins includes designs by names such as Karim Rashid, Dominic Wilcox, Bill Sofield, Simon Doonan, Thomas Libertiny, Ingrid Hoffman, Mattia Biagi and many others.

The bins are all currently on show in the Conran Shop in NYC and will be auctioned off with proceeds going to charity.

Have a look at some works out of the collection after the jump.

Stussy got together with Melbourne based artist Andy Murphy on a series of artist t-shirts. The artist projected his strong graphic style onto the medium t-shirt, in a series of overall four. Expect these to be in stores some time in October. Via Sneaker Freaker.

After recently giving you a first look at the upcoming special products of the Colette x Gap concept store, that will be opening its doors on September 6th in New York City, we show you today the Paris x New York City artist series t-shirts that were made for the occasion.
Colette and Gap have invited artists from both Paris and New York to design t-shirts for the pop-up store. Each t-shirt is designed by one Parisian artist and one New York artist together – a group of Paris-based artists have come up with design concepts that a group of New York artists completed. The line-up includes t-shirts by Artus x Peter Arkle, Miss Tic x Claw Money, Jean-Philippe Delhomme x Ruben, Thomas Lelu x Tobias Wong, Genevieve Gauckler x Eric Elms (here above) and Andre x Neckface (here above).
Have a look at the rest of the line-up out of the Colette x Gap Paris x NYC artist series t-shirts after the jump.

The Zoo York Institute is proud to announce that its highly-anticipated new series of collaboration artist boards will hit shops in early September. Inspired by Gotham’s most unbreakable resident – the cockroach – Zoo York’s new pro model board series features custom roach graphics by five renowned NYC artists including Greg Lamarche (SP.ONE), Steve Nishimoto (Nish), Kyle Talbott (Mesk One), Stephen Halker, and Jules Kim (Bijules).
Look out for the release!

Yesterday we gave you a detailed look at the Nike Air Max 90 Current CoLab Artist Series that will be released worldwide tomorrow. The series consists of three sneakers, designed by Ben Drury, Kevin Lyons and Japanese artist Yokoyama.
Today we give you look at the apparel that comes along with the sneakers out of the Nike CoLab "Air U Breathe" series. Each sneaker will come with matching t-shirts as well as a windrunner. Pics via Hectic.
Have a detailed look at all the apparel after the jump.

After much speculation and half decent images, we can finally show you today the entire Nike Air Max 90 Current Artist Series pack, consisting of three Air Max 90 Current, designed by Ben Drury, Kevin Lyons and Hito Yokoyama.
The pack will be released at Overkill this coming Friday, 8th of August.
Many images of all three sneakers, giving you a detailed look at the graphic of the artist that have been placed on the tongue, heel and lining, you can find after the jump.

Altamont, the brand created by Mark Foster, Patrick O’Dell and Andrew Reynolds, presents a strong line-up of artist collaboration t-shirts. They got together with FOS, Rickey Powell, Alyasha Owerka-Moore, J.Lorenzi, French and Neckface. Via Honeyee.
Expect these to be available soon.

As part of their Spring/Summer 2008 collection, Sound & Fury, Rockers NYC has worked on an artist seriss. The Sound & Fury Artist Series features the “Wardance” tee, a collabo with photographer Shawn Mortensen, and the “Youth vs. Youth” tee, a collabo with artist and musician, Brian DeGraw.
RockersNYC have worked with the world-renowned photographer, Shawn Mortensen, on the epic tee, Wardance. In 1991, a war was waged on the Jamaican dancehall battlefield. Two artists, Super Cat, aka Don Dada, and Ninja Man, aka Don Gargon, clashed at Sting in Kingston in a historical battle, captured by Shawn Mortensen on one of his many travels.
RockersNYC also had the honor of producing a tee using Brian DeGraw’s multimedia piece “The Youth of Today” (2006). This piece features two albums of the same name by two very different, but equally influential, groups – Musical Youth, an English reggae group, and The Youth of Today, an American hardcore band. As a work of art, and a tee, “the piece suggests that beneath heterogeneous surfaces and commercial artifices there is a universality of artistic ambition transcending class, borders, genres, and disciplines.”
Have a look at some more pictures of the t-shirts after the jump.

This season we have visited more tradeshows than ever before. Thousands of pictures are now on the memory sticks and step by step we will give you previews of the interesting bits and pieces that we came across these past couple of weeks.
Beginning of February we visited the Boutique Fräsh tradeshow in Stockholm. This rather new show happened for the second time this month and has quickly evolved into the premier skate/street tradeshow in the Scandinavian market. Any brand that you might be interested in was showing. Over the course of this week, we will give you some interesting previews from the show.
We start today by showing you an interesting parka from the Grenade Artist Series. They worked with Rogue Status on a mountain parka. The white parka features the already famous gunshow pattern by the brand all over. Matching pants will also be coming along at its release later this year.
Check out more pics after the jump.